[1083] Strasburg, 1622 and 1659.
[1084] And is not a chapter from the Liber Introductorius; see Brown, 77-8.
[1085] Liber Magistri Michaelis Scotti in quo continetur Magisterium, No. 44 in a MS belonging to the Speciale family. I have not seen the MS. It is described briefly by Brown, 78-80; see further S. A. Carini, Sulle Scienze Occulte nel Medio Evo, Palermo, 1872.
[1086] See bibliographical note at the beginning of this chapter.
[1087] This expression occurs in the course of the text itself—Corpus Christi 125, fol. 97r—in addition to the words scratched in the upper margin at the beginning by another hand, “Michael Scotus Theophilo Regi Saracenorum.” The conclusion of the treatise is in a 14th century hand, the remainder in a 15th century hand.
[1088] See bibliographical note at opening of this chapter.
[1089] Brown, p. 91, citing Wadding, I, 109.
[1090] Brown, p. 91, note 2.
[1091] Berthelot (1893) II, 74 and 77; Lippmann (1919) 481. I doubt if there is much ground for their further assertion that such clerics fell easily under suspicion of heresy and hence wrote in ciphers like Roger Bacon’s for gunpowder. At p. 688 I have refuted the notion that Bacon employed a cipher to conceal the recipe for gunpowder.
[1092] In his fourth chapter, “The Alchemical Studies of Michael Scot.”